How to find full published articles on Sci-Hub if you're faced with a paywall

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Here's an example of how to find a full article when it's behind a paywall. You first need to find the abstract to find the doi string or title of the paper.

1. Find the doi string or title of the article here:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24338648
It is 10.1002/bit.25171, taken from this line of text that is right below the word "Abstract:"Biotechnol Bioeng. 2014 Jun;111(6):1161-9. doi: 10.1002/bit.25171. Epub 2013 Dec 28
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5. You may land on a page with Russian text where you have to type some letters (English letters) to prove you're a real person. Enter the letters and you should land on the paper you're searching for.

If anyone else has other improvements on this, please feel free to add anything.

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The 2 IP addresses ( loads the page but does not load the article. I have not been able to find a way of getting it working. Adding these to the hosts file did not work for me.http://80.82.77.83/http://80.82.77.84/

The .tw URL works (for me), I found it a long time back as it was the only working URL until today and so does>http://sci-hub.hk/

Sci-Hub Domains Available Using Custom DNS Servers:http://sci-hub.tv — Down but available using custom DNS servers 80.82.77.83 and 80.82.77.84http://sci-hub.cc — Down but available using custom DNS servers 80.82.77.83 and 80.82.77.84http://sci-hub.io — Down but available using custom DNS servers 80.82.77.83 and 80.82.77.84http://sci-hub.la — Down but available using custom DNS servers 80.82.77.83 and 80.82.77.84

Up and Running Libgen Domains (Libgen has a copy of Sci-Hub's database):http://booksc.org

If you want to set up your computer with Sci-Hub's own custom DNS servers 80.82.77.83 and 80.82.77.84, then search Google for setting up custom DNS servers for your computer. When I set these as my DNS servers on my Mac (in System Preferences > Network > Advanced... > DNS), then I found I could successfully access the Sci-Hub .tv .cc .io .la domains.

A page showing the current up and running Sci-Hub domains is found here (but I cannot access some of the Sci-Hub domains that it says are running; some domains like http://sci-hub.is and http://sci-hub.ws will show the Sci-Hub home page, but do not seem to give you the paper when you search).

You are also supposedly able to access Sci-Hub through its darknet (onion web) URL which is http://scihub22266oqcxt.onion when using the Tor browser (it will not work in a normal browser). However, I cannot get this to work on Tor.